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WFUV Releases FUV Live 14 CD

MUSIC NEWS - Noncommercial radio station WFUV (90.7 FM, wfuv.org) will release the its' 14^th in the highly popular FUV Live CD series during its fall membership drive.  FUV Live 14 contains 20 songs by top indie and Americana performers, such as Black Joe Lewis, Edie Brickell, The Head and the Heart, k.d. lang and more, all recorded live in WFUV's Studio A.  And this year, for the first time, WFUV is releasing an additional benefit CD this year to support The Alternate Side. Live From The Alternate Side is a nine-song CD that includes exclusive live performances by Art Brut, James Blake, The Raveonettes and more.

"FUV Live 14 and Live From The Alternate Sideare like souvenirs for listeners of all our most memorable moments of the year," said WFUV Music Director Rita Houston. "The artists that passed through Studio A made us dance, laugh and bop our heads and it's great to get to relive those moments with these two CDs."  FUV Live 14 is available now with a contribution to the public radio station at www.wfuv.org throughout the membership drive and thereafter. Live From The Alternate Side will be available with a contribution to The Alternate Side at thealternateside.org, also beginning on October 15^th.

FUV Live 14 Track List

Amos Lee "Violin"
Black Joe Lewis "Livin' In The Jungle"
The Civil Wars "Forget Me Not"
David Wax Museum "Born With A Broken Heart"

The Decemberists "Down by the Water"
Edie Brickell "Waiting For Me"
Eilen Jewell "Bang Bang Bang"
Givers "Up Up Up"
The Head and the Heart "Lost In My Mind"
Iron & Wine "Tree By The River"
Jorma Kaukonen "Goodbye To The Blues"
Justin Townes Earle "One More Night In Brooklyn"
k.d. lang "The Water's Edge"
The Mountain Goats "Birth Of Serpents"
Nicole Atkins "The Tower"

Okkervil River "Rider"

Punch Brothers "Next to the Trash"
Randy Newman "You've Got A Friend In Me"
The Raveonettes "Forget That You're Young"
Villagers "The Pact (I'll Be Your Fever)"
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Live From The Alternate Side Track List-

The Vaccines "Wreckin' Bar (Ra Ra Ra)"

Okkervil River "Rider"
James Blake "Unlock"

The Naked and the Famous "Young Blood"

The Antlers "Every Night My Teeth Are Falling Out"
The Raveonettes "Forget That You're Young"

Art Brut "Lost Weekend"
The Mountain Goats "Birth Of Serpents"

The Lisps "Are We At The Movies?"

 

Visit wfuv.org/support to hear clips of all 20 songs.

 

WILCO, NEKO CASE, Others Part of Free Compliation In Support Of Public Radio

MUSIC NEWS -  As part of the 170 Million Americans for Public Broadcasting campaign, the organization and ANTI- Records are offering a free sixteen-track music compilation download to all public broadcasting supporters. Raise Your Voice!, is available at RYVoice.org site and includes tunes by the following performers-

Wilco * Neko Case * Tom Waits * Booker T. Jones * Man Man * Dr Dog * Mavis Staples * Jolie Holland * William Elliot Whitmore * Tinariwen * Lost In The Trees * Sean Rowe * Marketa Irglova * Joe Henry *  The Swell Season * Devotchka

 

Newport Folk and Jazz Fests to Simulcast Live

MUSIC NEWS - Continuing its tradition of bringing listeners the best live music from across the country, NPR Music, together with six partner radio stations, is exclusively live webcasting and broadcasting dozens of performances from this year's (sold out) Newport Folk Festival and the August 6 & 7 Newport Jazz Festival, offering four days of music from leading bands, singers and artists.  

For the Folk Festival on July 30 and 31, NPR Music and WFUV New York, FolkAlley.com (WKSU) Kent, OH, and mvyradio in Martha's Vineyard and Newport, RI are live video streaming many acclaimed acts. At the Jazz Festival on August 6 and 7, NPR Music with WBGO Newark, 89.7 WGBH Radio Boston and WICN New England are broadcasting and audio webcasting line-ups from three stages.

NYC Loses Another Rock Radio Station

MUSIC NEWS - Sad news for rock radio fans in Chicago already, and now in NYC with the music dying for many fans of Alternative and indie music with the loss of WXRP,  taken over by Merlin Media, which is reported to be changing the station’s format from contemporary rock to news that targets women in their 30s and 40s.

WRXP, was based at 395 Hudson St in the West Village, switched from jazz to rock in 2008, giving the Big Apple its only station that played modern rock music 24 hrs a day. Classic rock lovers can still tune in to Q104.3.  The station featured veteran DJs like Matt Pinfield.

The station’s website says they will continue to stream online.  But that's not quite the same and may small consolation for folks needing to tune into a quality rock station while driving or at work.  guess we'll be spending more time with the other NYC radio gem, WFUV, when we're in the Big Apple.

 

GOMEZ to Host Live Radio Event from NYC

MUSIC NEWS - WFUV (90.7 FM, wfuv.org) will present Gomez live in concert from the City Winery in NYC on Wednesday, July 13 (8:00 PM EST)  with WFUV Music Director Rita Houston as your host. The concert will air live on 90.7 FM in the New York City area and at wfuv.org around the world. 

GOMEZ, the Mercury Prize-winning rock band from Southport, England has long been a WFUV favorite. Ms  Houston was one of the first radio DJs to champion Gomez stateside and has interviewed the band many times over the course of twelve years.  To show their appreciation for the station and its loyal fans, Gomez will play the City Winery show exclusively for an audience of WFUV members. The band is also taping a performance for the Late Show with David Letterman the same day as it kicks off another leg of the current concert tour.

 

 

10th Annual SASQUATCH! MUSIC FEST Gets Live Radio & Web Broadcast

MUSIC NEWS - NPR Music, with Seattle’s KEXP, and their partner public radio stations from around the USA, will bring the soundtrack to this holiday weekend’s barbeque with a live webcast and broadcast of three days of music from the 10th annual Sasquatch! Music Festival in Quincy, Washington.

From May 28 thru 30, NPR Music is teaming up with member stations KEXP, KUT Austin, OPB Portland and The Current from Minnesota Public Radio, to offer dozens of full sets from music acts playing the sold-out Festival’s four stages, including Bright Eyes, Death Cab for Cutie (whose new album is previewing now at NPR Music’s “First Listen”), Deerhunter, Foo Fighters, Flying Lotus, J Mascis, Major Lazer, Old 97’s, Robyn, Smith Westerns, Surfer Blood, The Thermals, Twin Shadow, Washed Out and Wilco.

DEATH CAB for CUTIE Live DVD Due in May

MUSIC NEWS - As we anxiously await the May 31 release of Codes and Keys, the new DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE album, we get word from bassist Nick Harmer (via Seattle radio's 107.7 The End) that the band will release a live DVD in May, just before the new album's arrival.

The live DVD will feature a hometown (Bellingham, WA) performance by the band from their last tour. Harmer also said the band plans to play a number of warm-up gigs prior to their Sasquatch fest appearance at the end of May (ed note- we know have theor full tour itinerary, see below). The album’s first single, “You Are A Tourist,” is due out soon.

NPR Music Events at SXSW

MUSIC NEWS - NPR Music sets up shop in Austin, TX today to live broadcast and webcast more than a dozen performances; including Bright Eyes, Raphael Saadiq, The Antlers (premiering their forthcoming album in a “First Listen Live”), WILD FLAG, James Blake and tUnE-yArDs , during South by Southwest, March 16 thru 19. The concerts will be live webcast and video streamed at npr.org/music and the NPR Music iPhone App, and broadcast on NPR member stations across the country.  All concerts, videos, blogs, photo galleries and daily podcast wrap-ups can be found on the NPR site, along with the Austin 100, a streaming sampler of must-hear bands of SXSW, and archives of the past three years of NPR SXSW coverage. 

THOMAS DOLBY To Preview New Album at NYC Radio Performance

MUSIC NEWS - Next Friday, February 25, THOMAS DOLBY will be on the air live in NYC and give an exclusive performance of his first album of new material in 20 years,  A MAP OF THE FLOATING CITY, at 2pm EST, during a presentation of WNYC’s program SOUNDCHECK live from The Jerome L. Greene Performance Space.

DOLBY will be calling in to SOUNDCHECK (93.9 FM in New York and wnyc.org), at 2pm EST today to chat with host JOHN SCHAEFER and SOUNDCHECK fans about his appearance next week. 

IRON and WINE To Make NYC "Surprise" Concert Appearance

MUSIC NEWS - NPR Music and WNYC will video webcast a surprise concert from the acclaimed indie folk band Iron and Wine tonight (1/5/11) at 8PM (ET) from NYC, NY.  The concert will be Iron and Wine’s first live performance of its forthcoming album “Kiss Each Other Clean.”  See our previous coverage.

The concert was announced earlier today during an interview with singer/songwriter Sam Beam (aka Iron and Wine) on WNYC’s Soundcheck program, and is taking place at the radio station’s street-level broadcast and performance venue, The Greene Space. Tickets (extremely limited) are on sale now for $25 at www.wnyc.org/thegreenespace

 

Little Steven Wraps Up 2010 With the Highs & Lows of the Year

MUSIC NEWS - Little Steven will be ringing in the new year and wrapping up 2010 on his nationally syndicated radio show 'Underground Garage' next week (12/31-1/2) with a look back at the highs and lows of 2010 while he counts down his 13 favorite tracks of the year.

Van Zandt will also discuss the best 2010 had to offer in books and movies, and even read a passage from Keith Richards' recent autobiography, 'Life.'

Blues Singer, ROBIN ROGERS on NPR This Weekend

MUSIC NEWS - Charlotte, NC based blues artist, Robin Rogers is being featured on National Public Radio's "Weekend Edition Saturday"program today, Saturday, December 11th.  Ms Rogers was diagnosed with inoperable liver cancer in August 2010, just one month before the release of her latest album, the wonderful, Back in the Fire (out via Blind Pig Records).

Robin was interviewed for the report by "Weekend Edition Saturday" host Scott Simon.  For a complete list of NPR radio stations and broadcast times for the program, here.  If you missed the story, listen at NPR archives. 

DURAN DURAN Rush Releases "All You Need is Now" Tune

MUSIC NEWS - Duran Duran have today (12/08/10) released the lead single "All You Need Is Now" exclusively via the iTunes Store. The band will make the song available one week earlier than expected due to the increasing demand among their devoted fanbase. The 9-track digital album All You Need Is Now, produced by the Grammy Award-winning Mark Ronson, will be out December 21, 2010 exclusively thru the iTunes Store. An expanded physical LP with additional original, new tracks will be released in February 2011 in various format deluxe packages.  

This Friday December 10, 2010, Simon Le Bon and Nick Rhodes will pay a visit to Mark Ronson¹s radio show Authentic Sh*t on East Village Radio to exclusively unveil part of a new album track. Be sure to tune into East Village Radio on Friday from 8pm thru­ 10pm EST here @ eastvillageradio.com.

Special KEITH RICHARDS Interview to Air on WFUV

MUSIC NEWS - Early this autumn, a few fortunate New Yorkers got the chance to see legendary Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards in conversation with music writer Anthony DeCurtis at the New York Public Library.  Tickets for this unique event sold out in an amazing 42 seconds, leaving thousands of fans shut outt and reminding them that you can't always get what you want. 

To help out, NYC's public radio station WFUV is making sure you get what you need, by airing the interview to all New Yorkers and Stones fans accross the globe in a special broadcast on Thursday, December 16, 2010 at 9:00 PM EST, two days before Richards' 67^th birthday. 

DAFT PUNK Tron:Legacy Soundtrack Info, Preview Listen

MUSIC NEWS - French electro-pop duo, DAFT PUNK have revealed the tracklisting of their soundtrack album for the upcoming Disney film-  Tron: Legacy.  The album will be the band's first full film score, will be out on December 6 with the film releasing on December 17.

Give a listen to 'Derezzed', a song from the album, on the video, below-